All England: Olympic Race Adds Edge to Opening Round
It was the first round of the YONEX All England 2024, but to Catherine Choi/Josephine Wu, and their opponents Annie Xu/Kerry Xu, it could well have been a final. With the Olympic qualification window fast closing,…
· DEV SUKUMAR
It was the first round of the YONEX All England 2024, but to Catherine Choi/Josephine Wu, and their opponents Annie Xu/Kerry Xu, it could well have been a final. With the Olympic qualification window fast closing, and a Pan Am slot at stake between the Canadian and USA pairs, there was plenty riding on the outcome.
At world No.28, the Xu sisters are 15th in the Race to Paris, while Choi and Wu are No.33, just 2,172 points behind them. Another USA pair, Francesca Corbett/Allison Lee, are breathing down their necks at No.34.
Wu and Choi came away victorious in three games, and such was the mental effort that they looked absolutely exhausted.